Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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Mr. Walton drew a long breath , and then said , in his most amiable manner , though with rather an unsteady voice :“ Pray , may I inquire if all these cats ' and dogs ' grasses can be bought in this street - down stairs , perhaps ?
Mr. Walton drew a long breath , and then said , in his most amiable manner , though with rather an unsteady voice :“ Pray , may I inquire if all these cats ' and dogs ' grasses can be bought in this street - down stairs , perhaps ?
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And dee twice sight - second sight , you call him , mine gentle - mans , on princeeples magnetiques , is also perhaps then yet true . " Another burst of laughter rewarded this luminous explanation and defence . “ No witchcraft !
And dee twice sight - second sight , you call him , mine gentle - mans , on princeeples magnetiques , is also perhaps then yet true . " Another burst of laughter rewarded this luminous explanation and defence . “ No witchcraft !
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I cannot think you right in acting thus in a room devoted to the acquirement of knowledge ; neither do I wish to defend everything that our friend the Lecturer has said . But perhaps we have all been rather hasty .
I cannot think you right in acting thus in a room devoted to the acquirement of knowledge ; neither do I wish to defend everything that our friend the Lecturer has said . But perhaps we have all been rather hasty .
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Perhaps I may even persuade them to take a trip over to Dublin with me . What a fine woman that Mary Walton is ! —fine person , shapely and complete — handsome face_instructed mind ; has some wild radical notions about the improvement ...
Perhaps I may even persuade them to take a trip over to Dublin with me . What a fine woman that Mary Walton is ! —fine person , shapely and complete — handsome face_instructed mind ; has some wild radical notions about the improvement ...
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Perhaps — to be fair — the sanguineness of persons “ given to move ” may have , in part , exasperated their stupidity . In the matters , for instance , which I am about to treat , the cry of “ Clubs ” has been mixed up with all manner ...
Perhaps — to be fair — the sanguineness of persons “ given to move ” may have , in part , exasperated their stupidity . In the matters , for instance , which I am about to treat , the cry of “ Clubs ” has been mixed up with all manner ...
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Page 169 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 169 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 169 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 548 - in which the conversation turned on the civil war, what could be conceived more impertinent than for a person to ask abruptly, What was the value of a Roman denarius ? On a little reflection, however, I was easily able to trace the train of thought which suggested the question : for, the original subject of discourse naturally introduced the history of the king, and of the treachery of those who surrendered his person to his enemies ; this again introduced the treachery of Judas Iscariot, and the...
Page 169 - Thus by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Page 170 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 226 - Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, And fevers into false creation ; — where, Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized ? In him alone. Can Nature show so fair...
Page 168 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
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| Title | Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 6 |
| Editor | Douglas Jerrold |
| Publisher | Punch Office, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2007 |
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